Rotierende Drahtfigur. Design für das Cover des Ausstellungskatalogs "Subjektive Fotografie" in Saarbrücken. 1951.
Photography. Vintage, high gloss gelatine silver print. Consisting of two parts, with a diagonal white line drawn by hand.
Inscribed "Strenges Ballett I"on the reverse. 29.2 x 20.8 cm (11.4 x 8.1 in).
Accompanied by an original brochure of the exhibition "Subjektive Fotografie Saarbrücken", July 1951, as well as a copy of Herbert Strässer's annual assessment of the "Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk Saarbrücken" for the academic year 1950/51, from which his participation in the exhibition "Subjektive Fotografie" emerged.
• On the cover of the exhibition catalog " Subjektive Fotografie" in 1951.
• This version with the diagonal line drawn by hand is a unique piece.
• The rotating wire sculpture was inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's figure studies at the Bauhaus and is already known as a variant from Otto Steinert's "Strenges Ballett - Hommage à Oskar Schlemmer" from 1949.
• His works can be found in international museum collections like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
• Line, space and dynamics in the 1950s: Our Evening Sale features important positions in sculpting by Hans Uhlmann and Norbert Kricke.

PROVENANCE: Herbert Strässer (directly from the photographer).
Estate of Herbert Strässer (with the estate stamp on the reverse).
Private collection Northern Germany.

LITERATURE: Bassenge, Photography, auction 107, Berlin, June 1, 2016, lot 4316 (illu.).